Log Cabin attacks Chasten Buttigieg, defends anti-gay Florida bill

metroweekly.com:

Florida, meaning from preschool up to Grade 3), or “in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.”Buttigieg recently attacked Florida Gov.

Ron DeSantis (R) on Twitter over the bill being pushed by DeSantis’ fellow Republicans, claiming that its would “kill kids” by making it harder for LGBTQ children to acknowledge their identities.

He later appeared on CNN to discuss his opposition to the bill, which he claimed was “essentially pushing kids back into the closet” and telling them that they “don’t belong here.”Buttigieg pointed to a survey by The Trevor Project, the nation’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ youth, which found that 42% of LGBTQ youth had contemplated suicide over the past year.

Buttigieg argued that the bill would send a negative message to LGBTQ youth that they don’t belong by telling them “…[W]e can’t talk about you, we can’t even talk about your families.”But Log Cabin Republicans defended the bill, accusing Buttigieg of “dishonestly smear[ing]” Florida Republicans in an effort to portray them as anti-gay.In a statement, the group noted that the respondents to the survey referenced by Buttigieg were high school-aged adolescents and young adults, not elementary school children.